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Writer’s Studio: Using Scrivener to Storyboard Your Picture Book
When I was on faculty at the Big Sur in the Rockies Workshop in May, I happened to mention that I started using Scrivener to write my latest novel and how much it has helped keep me organized. One of the writer’s asked if I used it for writing picture books and I said no. … Continue reading
Writer’s Studio: Making Good (Word) Choices
Last Friday at my Wild Writers critique meeting, someone commented on how she was chomping at the bit to start a new novel, and a few people echoed her excitement about the joys of the first draft, free and unfettered. For them anyway. I’m still not completely out of my habit of agonizing over word … Continue reading
Writer’s Studio: Constructing a Scene
You’ve probably heard about creating a scene that is basically a mini-story with a beginning, middle and end and that shows some kind of change in the character or new knowledge. I heard this after my books were already published, but am working hard to include it in my current work-in-progress. However, I decided to … Continue reading
Writer’s Studio: Adding Humor to Your Novel
My four published novels – Click Here, Access Denied, Fact of Life #31 and my newest book, Rock On, all have touches of humor throughout, in spite of dealing with mostly serious topics. I didn’t realize how much my writer pals associated this with my work until they read the first fifty pages of my current … Continue reading









